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光阴

guāng yīn

2-character word Traditional 光陰

What 光阴 means

1. time available

The characters in 光阴

• 光guānglight; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely
• 阴yīnovercast (weather); cloudy; shady

Example sentences

• 光阴飞似箭，水果飞似蕉。
  Guāngyīn fēi sì jiàn, shuǐguǒ fēi sì jiāo.
  Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
• 光阴飞逝如箭; 果蝇喜欢香蕉。
  Guāngyīn fēishì rú jiàn; guǒyíng xǐhuan xiāngjiāo.
  Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
• 俗话说：一寸光阴一寸金；可俗话又说：寸金难买寸光阴！
  Súhuàshuō: yīcùnguāngyīnyīcùnjīn; kě súhuà yòu shuō: cùnjīnnánmǎicùnguāngyīn!
  There is a proverb that goes "time is money", but there is another one that goes "money can't buy you time".

Words starting with 光阴

• 光阴似箭guāng yīn sì jiàntime flies like an arrow (idiom); How time flies!
• 光阴荏苒guāng yīn rěn rǎn(idiom) How time flies!

Words containing 光阴

• 虚度光阴xū dù guāng yīnto waste time on worthless activities
• 寸金难买寸光阴cùn jīn nán mǎi cùn guāng yīnAn ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom); Money can't buy you time.…
• 一寸光阴一寸金yī cùn guāng yīn yī cùn jīn(saying) time is precious
• 一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴yī cùn guāng yīn yī cùn jīn , cùn jīn nán mǎi cùn guāng yīn(lit.) an interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time (saying)…